Founder of The Caffeine Experience (2017). ASEAN Coffee Institute Head Trainer, ACTA-licensed, and 12th at the Singapore National Barista Championship. Carries the Academy's mission, training and reintegration. “I connect with them because I am one of them.”
Colleagues
The people
behind the promise
A leadership team and board that together carry both the craft and the calling of second chances — pairing lived experience with professional, training, creative, and pastoral depth.
Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Raffles Family Office, one of Asia's prominent multi-family offices. Brings institutional financial discipline and a heart for second chances — setting strategy, governance and long-term sustainability.
CFO and the operational heartbeat of The Caffeine Experience since 2019, and an NUS Science (Hons) graduate. Oversees café operations and finances — the steady hand that keeps the daytime business sustaining the evening academy.
Founder and CEO of The Emboldr, Future-of-Work consultant and author of Gen Z Secrets. Designs and leads the Pillar B / 3C soft-skills curriculum, and instructs at General Assembly Singapore.
Editorial and commercial photographer with 25 years' experience and founder of the PizzaFace brand. Leads brand and visual storytelling, and co-leads the faith-formation track.
Leads the Academy's counselling and emotional-care practice — walking with learners through the personal and relational work that helps change last.
Governance & oversight
Director of Crossroads Singapore and Regional Director for Asia at Crossroads Prison Ministries, with decades of prison chaplaincy across Changi and halfway houses.
Provides oversight on educational quality and governance — ensuring the Academy's curriculum and accreditation pathways are rigorous and accountable.
Guides organisational strategy and people development, helping the Academy grow its team and impact responsibly.
Brings specialty-coffee industry and social-enterprise insight to the board, anchoring the vocational mission in commercial reality.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!”
2 Corinthians 5:17 · Soli Deo Gloria